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WORDNET DICTIONARY
Adjective meaningless has 1 sense
- meaningless(a = adj.all) nonmeaningful - having no meaning or direction or purpose; "a meaningless endeavor"; "a meaningless life"; "a verbose but meaningless explanation" Antonym: meaningful
Derived form noun meaninglessness1
CIDE DICTIONARY
meaningless, adj.
having no meaning; of no value; as, a meaningless endeavor; a meaningless life; a meaningless explanation. Opposite of meaningful . [WordNet 1.5]
OXFORD DICTIONARY
meaningless, adj. having no meaning or significance.
Derivative
meaninglessly adv. meaninglessness n.
THESAURUS
meaningless
absurd, aimless, amorphous, asinine, blank, bootless, capricious, casual, designless, desultory, disarticulated, discontinuous, disinclined to communicate, disjunct, disordered, dispersed, disproportionate, empty, erratic, fatuous, feckless, fitful, foolish, formless, frivolous, fustian, garbled, good-for-nothing, gratuitous, haphazard, hit-or-miss, hollow, immethodical, importless, impotent, inane, inchoate, incoherent, inconsequential, indiscriminate, ineffective, ineffectual, inefficacious, insignificant, insubstantial, irregular, irrelevant, misshapen, no go, nonconnotative, nondenotative, nonsensical, nonsymmetrical, nonsystematic, nonuniform, nugatory, null, of no use, orderless, paltry, phatic, planless, pointless, preposterous, promiscuous, puny, purportless, purposeless, random, ridiculous, scrambled, secretive, senseless, shapeless, silly, spasmodic, sporadic, straggling, straggly, superfluous, systemless, trifling, trivial, unarranged, unavailing, unclassified, uncommunicative, unconversable, undirected, ungraded, unimportant, unjoined, unmeaning, unmethodical, unordered, unorganized, unpurposed, unsignificant, unsociable, unsorted, unsubstantial, unsymmetrical, unsystematic, ununiform, useless, vacant, vacuous, vague, vain, valueless, wandering, worthlessROGET THESAURUS
meaningless
Unmeaningness
N meaninglessness, unmeaningness, scrabble, empty sound, dead letter, vox et praeterea nihil, a tale told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, signifying nothing, sounding brass and a tinkling cymbal, nonsense, utter nonsense, gibberish, jargon, jabber, mere words, hocus-pocus, fustian, rant, bombast, balderdash, palaver, flummery, verbiage, babble, baverdage, baragouin, platitude, niaiserie, inanity, flap-doodle, rigmarole, rodomontade, truism, nugae canorae, twaddle, twattle, fudge, trash, garbage, humbug, poppy-cock, stuff, stuff and nonsense, bosh, rubbish, moonshine, wish-wash, fiddle- faddle, absurdity, vagueness, boilerplate, clich_¬, unmeaning, meaningless, senseless, nonsensical, void of sense, inexpressive, unexpressive, vacant, not significant, insignificant, trashy, washy, trumpery, trivial, fiddle-faddle, twaddling, quibbling, unmeant, not expressed, tacit, inexpressible, undefinable, incommunicable.
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